Sports Car Graphic?

I found these cleaning the garage:

I forgot I had them. A small collection of Sports Car Graphics, October 1963 to May 1969 (not complete). The covers look cool. Are the insides any good?

Yup.

Used to subscribe until they ceased existing. IIRC SCG's last issue was in the early 70s & was a special "stag" edition, in which there were no racy photos of wimmin, but featured the new Triumph Stag.

Loved that mag. Then they went belly up and rolled my subscription into Motor Trend (which really, really sucked back then. Really)

Absolutely the best American sports car magazine before GRM. First mag with real handling test numbers, courtesy editor Paul Van Valkenburg. A set of old SCGs is a treasure. Well, not financially, but for the information. I remember every single issue in your photo.

Jim Pettengill wrote: Absolutely the best American sports car magazine before GRM. First mag with real handling test numbers, courtesy editor Paul Van Valkenburg. A set of old SCGs is a treasure. Well, not financially, but for the information. I remember every single issue in your photo.

Well drat! I was kind of hoping to fund some Javelin speed parts with this find! Ah well, they are very cool. Guess I'll take them out of the sleeves and read them.

As noted before, SCG was the GRM of its' time. Van Valkenburg and the staff devoted a little time to cure the evil handling of the beautiful but treacherous Mangusta. Their results were far more successful than the pitiful efforts shown by the factory. Also, another issue featured an MGB-build with a 289 Ford stuffed into it; good stuff.

The words may be decades old but the knowledge is timeless.

Hello Javelin. I used to have a collectioon of SCG. magazine but it gost lost in a garage fire. I wander if you could scan a series of articles I'd like to recover. and upload them to the forum or to my mail (sisticar@hotmail.com)Their name was something like: 1)Your hot engine, How to prepare your engine for racing and 2)Preparing to race.- how to improve your car for racing Waitin to hear from you Thank you

David S. Wallens wrote: Yup.

It was called 'Our Last Triumph', and cover was trimmed in Black.

I got them from 66 to 70. I remember that series of building a production SCCA race engine. SCG and Autoweek fed my dreams for years.

They had a re-birth of sorts in the early '80's. I think I still have the first issue from that. It had Paul Newman and his 280ZX-Turbo on the cover.